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Seeing inside Earth’s secrets using cosmic muons

Seeing inside Earth’s secrets using cosmic muons

1 February 2019

David Mahon is using muon particles from space to illuminate secrets buried in the pyramids and elsewhere.
Cosmic rays have revealed a new chamber in Egypt’s Great Pyramid

Cosmic rays have revealed a new chamber in Egypt’s Great Pyramid

2 November 2017

Particles from outer space have helped scientists uncover a hidden chamber within Egypt’s most famous pyramid, the first such finding in over a century

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